Brothels, depravity, and abandoned women : illegal sex in antebellum New Orleans / Judith Kelleher Schafer.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xiii, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Selling sex and the law -- "Disgusting depravity" : sex across the color line -- The sexual exploitation of children -- Infamous public women -- Larceny and robbery among prostitutes -- Violent lives -- The murder of a "lewd and abandoned woman" : State of Louisiana v. Abraham Parker -- Keeping a brothel in antebellum New Orleans -- "An ordinance concerning lewd and abandoned women."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-198) and index.